Gentlemen: I am a photographer for the Ft. Worth public Schools, but I got a new wrinkle in the work during recent floods when we had no water (at least in the mains) for a week. It became necessary to put out a few prints, so I got water out of the fish pond . . . It worked pretty well, except that there were red, green, and brown stains on each print . . . the picture was made by my daughter, Mrs. Bill Rogers of Ft. Worth.

PRESENTATION of the Joseph A. Sprague Memorial awards to five individuals who have made outstanding contributions in the field of press photography highlighted the fourth annual convention banquet of the National Press Photographers Association in Atlantic City.

SOME DAY, we suppose, “photographers’ luck” will be as much of an occupational term as housemaid’s knee, or pitcher’s arm. This, we think, is a perfect illustration of photographers’ luck. DAVE EISENDRATH was sent to Annapolis to do several stories.

Newspicture Progress. Through the combined use of a Polaroid Land Camera and the Fairchild Direct Electric Engraver a newspicture made for the Salem, N. J., Standard and Jerseyman appeared in print a half-hour after the camera shutter clicked, according to a recent issue of Editor & Publisher.

WHEN AN AMATEUR photographer makes an enlargement, generally speaking, he intends to exhibit it. This does not necessarily mean in an international salon. For each print so presented, there are many which hang on the walls at home, and what is to be said about size applies just as forcibly there as it does in the case of the salon print, perhaps more so.

YOU will recall that a couple of months ago we devoted some space to the subject of using photography to bring pleasure to other people. All of the uses referred to involved the taking of pictures and making prints, so that the photographer himself can have fun while working at his hobby to make someone else happy.

With one dominant color in his setup, Bob Peloso of New York City created this striking picture through deft lighting

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JACOB DESCHIN

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NOW that the novelty of color photography for color's sake has worn off, compositions that incorporate a "riot of hues" have become the trademark of the tyro. Good color photography today generally incorporates a judicious selection of related colors: cool hues (violets, blues, and greens) in background areas, and warmer hues (toward the red end of the spectrum) in more important areas.

Here you will find action, color, drama, and human interest for your camera . . . and fun for yourself

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FRITZ W. NEUGASS

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IF YOU have shot your quota of landscapes and scenics this summer, and if your appetite for that type of picture fare is beginning to pall, tingle your photographic taste buds and give yourself a mental lift at the same time by taking your camera to the county fair.

Here's a simple and effective way to create costumes that suit the moods and tastes of your camera subjects

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CINE FILM FOUND—IS IT YOURS?

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ROBERT B. KOHL

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IF YOU’RE tired of shooting the same old routine on portraits, try an inspirational dose of Vitamin D (Photo). “D” is for Draping that is Different—and it may open an entirely new field of portraiture to you. You’ve probably run the gamut before.

Max Peter Haas, ardent 35-mm devotee, has made 100,000 shots during his career of two decades

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NORMAN C. LIPTON

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THERE IS hardly a picture magazine or Sunday supplement in the world that hasn’t listed the photo credit Max Peter Haas—from European during the past 20 years. Haas is probably best known for his sports pictures (especially tennis); for his coverage of the “New York passing scene,” and his occupational portraits of the statesmen, entertainers, sportsmen, and other figures who people the daily newspaper headlines.

Hand signals used by Jack O’Reilly, New York illustrator, relay lighting orders to helpers on the shooting set

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THE studio set is ready, model instructed and posed, and assistants have taken their places at the lights. Jack O’Reilly stands beside his camera in the Gray-O’Reilly Studios, New York City, and prepares to light the setup prior to shooting the illustrations.

Want to make good pictures of people? Then help your subjects retain their natural poise. It’s easy if you ...

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EUGENE M. HANSON

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HAVE you ever noticed how the main characters in movies are always lighting cigarettes, pouring drinks, opening books which they don’t read, applying make-up, putting on gloves, dallying with this or toying with that? Have you noticed that they always keep their hands busy?

That added touch or the idea behind a picture often takes a scene out of the ordinary class and converts it into one of your most successful shots

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FILMS AID TRAINING

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ARTHUR L. SCHOENI

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TWO beautiful teen-age girls stand before the judges of a beauty contest. Both are clad in the same brief bathing suits that cover little and reveal much. They are about the same height. Their “whistle quotient” is about the same. The judges pick one for the queen while the crowd applauds the choice.

The author's answer will give live groups new ideas and help ailing organizations get back on their feet

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1. They Want to Take Better Pictures

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2. They Want to Show Off Their Masterpieces

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3. They Want Companionship and Inspiration

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General Suggestions

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CAMERA CATCHES THE CULPRIT

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URBAN M. ALLEN

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WHY is a camera club? If you know the answer to that one, chances are your club is whizzing along on all eight cylinders. If you don’t, the odds are that the organization has developed a “slow leak,” and nobody seems to know why. If this is the case, you can probably use some suggestions that may help solve the problem.

Light is responsible for the appearance of things. Whether it emphasizes or eliminates texture in a picture is up to the photographer

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REALISM in photography depends to a great extent on the amount and precision of detail recorded in a picture. Detail sometimes consists of small independent forms, but more often it is “form within form,” or texture. Texture gives a surface its character.

Add a new lighting method to your bag of tricks by turning the camera around to face the sun. Here is a technique that will really pep up your pictures

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PHOTO STUDENTS' SALON

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FRED G. LYON

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IF ALL of your pictures look as though you’ve been following the rule book too closely, spark up your portfolio with a few shots into the light. You will find that you can improve upon the book of instructions that came with your camera, and the careful admonition that “the sun striking the lens will spoil your picture.”

A photographer plans and executes a trick color shot to record his impressions of a photogenic man-made wonder

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JACK STEVENS

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WITHOUT question the observatory on Palomar Mountain in California, which houses the new 200-inch Hale telescope, is among the most impressive and most photogenic of all man-made wonders. It has been the subject of many fine photographs, each interpreting its immensity, its beauty, or the massiveness of its machinery according to its impact on the individual photographer.

Yousuf Karsh long has been famous for his portraits of noted personalities. The studies of prominent women found on this and the following three pages are of special interest, for in recent years Karsh's fine work has been associated mostly with pictures of men.

Using a symmetrical or rhythmic arrangement of masses in an exciting manner is a sure way to attract attention to a print. The intriguing abstract design above resulted when two different negatives of a plastic mobile sculpture were printed together.

The swish of taffeta and ring of laughing voices can almost be heard in this photograph of happy newlyweds who, with members of their wedding party, line up to receive friends and relatives. Joe Clark of Detroit, Mich., observed the wealth of human interest offered by this scene and candidly recorded it for your enjoyment.

The enchantment of picturesque, far-away lands is alluring to everyone. Mary Shaw Schlivek of New York City transports us to colorful South America with three perceptive photographs. An old woman of Peru sits behind an earthenware jug and gasoline tin—symbols of the past and present; a child plays contentedly with a palmleaf basket on the bank of the Amazon River; and a Brazilian takes his siesta in a small boat that is in striking contrast to the giant ocean-going liner in the background.

Well-portrayed humor has a definite place in photography. One cameraman recorded an amusing situation as two chimpanzees played at taking pictures. Another made an equally funny shot by contrasting the jovial face of a man with the midget camera he was using.

Using appropriate props and theatrical poses, and by skillfully lighting his model’s highly mobile features, Jules Alexander of New York City captured dramatic tension in these exciting portraits of Hurd Hatfield, famous for the sinister role he played in the movie "Picture of Dorian Gray."

When taking pictures of a fair subject, the cameraman has more assurance that his shots will have that much-sought-after charm if his pretty model has natural poise. Andre de Dienes of New York City found such a subject in lovely Linda Christian, whom he photographed at the sea shore as she studied an odd-shaped pebble.

More facts to help you take good pictures plus a special chart for trouble-shooting

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Chapter VII ACTION PICTURES

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Chapter IX PETS, FARM ANIMALS, AND THE ZOO

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Chapter X MOONLIGHT AND NIGHT PICTURES

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Chapter XI EXTERIORS AND INTERIORS OF BUILDINGS

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Chapter XII NATURE PHOTOGRAPHY

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Chapter XIII TABLETOP PICTURES

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Chapter XIV MAKING GREETING CARDS

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Chapter XV NEGATIVES AND PRINTS

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Chapter XVI "TROUBLE-SHOOTING"

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WALLACE E. DOBBS

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THE two greatest difficulties in making action pictures are focusing and determining the exact instant for the exposure. Focusing is difficult because of the change of distance encountered when the action is either approaching or leaving the camera.

. . . Thus was America’s first aerial photograph described in 1860 when J. W. Black took this history-making picture from the basket of a balloon

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WALTER IAN FISCHMAN

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THE average Bostonian of 1860 had his three cornered hat firmly on his head and his feet just as firmly on the ground. Only fools went up in the air in those crazy balloons . . . any respectable citizen knew that. And so the crowd that gathered early one October morning to watch a vast envelope of silk being inflated with hydrogen was curious, a little frightened, but half expecting a hoax and ready to jeer.

Is this a successful cat picture? Read what two famous cat lovers and a mere photographer have to say about it.

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I choose to believe that this photographer, whoever he is, couldn’t possibly intend to insult my intelligence by composing this mousecake picture of a cat reading. First, my experience is that cats are far too intelligent to become involved in reading nine-tenths of the baloney being put out in book form today.

FOR CONTINUOUS RUNNING time of more than 2 minutes at 16 frames per second. the Revere Model 20 Booster Motor is introduced by Revere Camera Co.. 320 E. 21st St., Chicago 16, 111., for use with S-mm movie cameras. The motor attaches to the camera and can be used on a tripod, set on a flat surface, or held in the cameraman’s hands.

Prints and slides showing zoo subjects photographed in any zoo in the world are eligible for entry in the third international Zoo Pictures Competition and Exhibition. Sponsored by the Chicago Nature Camera Club, the contest lists a total of $250 in prizes, and has a deadline of September 15.

The subjects of these four Karsh portraits, famous stage and screen stars, are known to most everyone. Beatrice Billie’s popularity has caused her to divide her time between the American and English stage since 1921. During most of World War II she entertained troops in Europe.

Simple optical slater provides a means for identifying film scenes, and can be made easily

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IVAN COURAN

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EDITING all those feature movies in Hollywood is a gigantic job which the motion picture industry simplifies by using a gadget called a “slate.” This device is actually a slate board which contains all pertinent information regarding the scene to follow.

Revealing near shots entertain and inform an audience. Use plenty of them to add interest to your movie stories

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AN AMATEUR movie maker enjoys a feeling of accomplishment when his audience sits up and takes notice of what is happening on the screen. While the chances are that you can’t film those rip-roaring westerns that are jam-packed with action, you can make your movies attention-getters by accentuating the action that does occur in your normal movie-making scenes.

SING A SONG OF FRIENDSHIP. 16-mm black-and-white or color, sound. Sale: blackand-white $25, color $86. Official Films, Inc., 25 West 45th Street, New York 19, N. Y. This film was designed by Irving Caesar as a "Friendly Frolic of Song," for use in homes, schools, clubs and churches; each reel contains three numbers which sing of world friendship.

Mr. James A. Findley, formerly Chicago manager of Henning and Cheadle, Inc., has been appointed manager of sales for McHenry Films, Inc., 608 South Dearborn Street, Chicago 5, 111. in the distribution of visual equipment and specially prepared promotional training film programs.

Dial thermometers can be the cause of extreme exasperation in the darkroom. To a hurried worker, the sight of this type of thermometer rolling around the edges of a tray may take all the fun out of the processing of prints or film. To prevent this, insert the thermometer stem through a cork, and cut flat surfaces into the sides of the cork.

COLOR MOVIES FOR THE BEGINNER by Harris B. Tuttle, FRPS, APSA. Published by Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, 185 N. Wabash, Chicago. Paper bound, 5x6¾ profusely illustrated, 144 pages, $1. Here’s the revised edition of a book written for the amateur photographer who wants the satisfaction and thrill of working intelligently with motion pictures in color.

A HUMOROUS treatment is the vein used in the 8 and 16-mm movie, “Your Camera and How to Use It.” The sometimes-boring how-to-do-it style is supplanted by the zany antics of actors William and Fran Erwin, and impresses upon the novice the things “not to do.”

Conducted according to the recommended practices of Photographic Society of America. M.P.S. 2nd International Salon of Photography*, Mysore Photographic Society, Bangalore, India. On exhibition in Bangalore, Sept. 3 to 18; in Mysore during October.

E. LEITZ, INC., announces the first photo competition in ten years, a contest in which $4,800 worth of Leica cameras and accessories will be awarded. This contest is in celebration of the Leitz Centennial, 1849-1949. The contest is run in three sections.

IF ANY photographic procedure can be called unique, the firefly-light illuminated photographs by Dr. Ross E. Hutchins of Mississippi State University certainly can. Novel experiments are made continually on these insects because science still does not fully understand the chemistry of the fireflies’ remarkable ability to generate light.